I met the man who would become Pope Leo XIV in October 2023. We were standing outside the Vatican’s Synod Hall, and from my ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago has been elected pope, becoming the first American to lead the Roman Catholic ...

Pope Leo XIV is now the most powerful American Catholic in the world, and experts say he must aptly walk the line between U.S ...

A résumé of deep religious education, frontline pastoral experience, parish management and Vatican governance — along with a ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, has been elected as the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church, succeeding Pope Francis. The 69-year-old, the first American to hold the position ...

The Rev. Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, wrote his doctoral thesis on the way local Augustinian superiors exercise authority, the university rector said Friday. It’s an issue that is perhaps newly ...

One Erie bishop met the new pope almost a decade ago in Rome. Another bishop with local ties is going to Pope Leo XIV's ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.

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Pope Leo XIV’s American and Peruvian experience offers a compelling moral and economic lens through which to examine the ...

(Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune) For many South Siders and White Sox fans, the news of Robert Prevost’s election to head of the Roman Catholic Church was nothing less than a godsend during these ...

When Cardinal Robert Prevost was in the first grade, his neighbor told him he would be the first American pope, his brother ...